10 famous/infamous whistleblowers

Self-professed NSA leaker Edward Snowden has seemingly joined the list of famous whistleblowers. Some call these individuals heroes, many others call them traitors, but all of these figures became famous for providing information, sometimes secretly, in an attempt to expose the people or organization they worked for. A number of them have even been portrayed in movies.

2. Daniel Ellsberg

The employee of the State Department in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, a secret account of documents pertaining to how the United States came to fight the Vietnam War. The Nixon administration sought the Supreme Court's help in preventing The New York Times and Washington Post from publishing the papers but was rejected.